SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Big Business

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: basham

Document Summary

Big business (like banks) have hammerlock hold on relevant policies via lobbyists, campaign funding, etc. Ordinary people (without 26975$) not well represented in us polities. (irvine rep: no town hulls, lots of access for those with major 26975) Money-driven system creates full-time fundraisers but part-time elected officials. Big money- which flows to democrats and republicans makes major parties rather than similar on may key issues (inside job insider). Money domination reduces public participation and voting (recent election) fraud was nearly all voter suppression little. Based on ethnographic studies of family budgets decades ago. (1995) Found that poor families spend about one-third of income on food. So today the us government has calculated the poverty line for households by estimating their food basket needs and multiply by 3 (using consumer price. No regional adjustment dollar thresholds apply to entre nation, rural and urban. Only people who are counted in the census go into the calculations.